College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w
Something wrong. And president obama joins in in demanding answers. I just ask folks to sit back and think, what if this happened to somebody in your family . How would you feel . Reporter tonight, here in dc, and across the country, protests emerge in the street. Peaceful, but powerful. And were monitoring breaking news out of dallas, shots fired at a bro test against the police shootings. You are looking live at the scene. It may be a bit chaotic, there are reports that two officers have been shot. That has not yet been confirmed, but you can see its a very active scene out there. A lot of emergency vehicles, we can see outside of this shot. The sound of the shots could be heard shortly before 9 00. Heres a listen. [ gunshots witnesses reported hearing six to eight shots. We dont have confirmation yet that the Police Officers were hurt, but this is considered an active shooter scene. Our newsroom is monitoring all the developments out of dallas. We will bring them to you as they happ
Since the primaries. And as abcs mary bruce shows us , the fireworks have already started. Mary the stage is set, and the expectation game in full swing on the campaign trail. What were concerned about is that there might be some sort of double standard here. I really dont appreciate campaigns thinking it is the job of the media to go and be these virtual factcheckers. Mary the Hillary Clinton and donald trump camps trying to set the bar on what will likely be the most watched political showdown in american history. Their first president ial debate being compared to the super bowl. 100 Million People expected to watch. And the race couldnt be tighter. A new abc News Washington post poll shows Clinton Holding at 46 , donald trump just two points behind. That is within the margin of error. The clinton camp hammering that trump needs to be called out on lies. Sen. Kaine in a 90 minute format, not 20second soundbites, theres a real this actually true or not . mary meanwhile, trump says he
Good evening, good evening. Thank you for coming out here to politics and prose, thank you for coming to politics and prose for another one of our lively and enlightened cant hear me . Okay. Thank you. Please silence all your cell phones at this point. Let me go through them some housekeeping details. And and during this questionandanswer period, and and in addition to recording your questions for prosperity. And audience members should be able to hear your questions. Thank you so much. Copies are on sale. Right by the door. Without further ado, city of sedition the history of new york city during the civil war is a very appropriate book for revising and reconsidering history. In regards to the civil war, we have often encountered a very narrow dialectic perspective, the adversaries are divided along the masondixon line between slaveholders in the south and industrialists in the north. Thankfully for the past couple decades, the faulty lens of history and city of sedition the history o
The candidates are fighting for every vote clinton is leading trump by just 2 . Both campaigns are targeting wisconsin. Both trump and his running mate mike pence will visit our area, and the Clinton Campaign sent a big name today. 12 news terry sater joining us live now from downtown milwaukee. Terry . Terry this is the zeidler municipal building, one of three begin in milwaukee tomorrow morning at 10 00 a. M. Earlier today, i spoke with new york city mayor bill de blasio, in milwaukee to campaign for clinton. Mayor de blasio wisconsins going to be one of the places where the elections decided. And i think in favor of Hillary Clinton. Terry new york city mayor bill de blasio campaigned for Hillary Clinton on the eve of early voting in milwaukee. Mayor de blasio and i encourage people to recognize how precious and to get out there and vote and vote early. Terry the latest Marquette University Law School Poll shows a tightening president ial race in wisconsin, with clinton out in front